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Handbook of Family Policies Across the Globe (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Handbook of Family Policies Across the Globe (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Family policy holds a particular status in the quest for a more
equitable world as it intersects the rights of women, children, and
workers. But despite local and global efforts and initiatives, the
state of family policy in different areas of the world varies
widely. Through a cross-section of countries on six continents,
Family Policies Across the Globe offers the current state of the
laws concerning family life, structure, and services, providing
historical, cultural, and socioeconomic context. Lucidly written
chapters analyze key aspects of family definition, marriage, child
well-being, work/family balance, and family assistance, reviewing
underlying social issues and controversies as they exist in each
country. Details of challenges to implementation and methods of
evaluating policy outcomes bring practical realities into sharp
focus, and each chapter concludes with recommendations for
improvement at the research, service, and governmental levels. The
result is an important comparative look at how governments support
families, and how societies perceive themselves as they evolve.
Among the issues covered: Sierra Leone: toward sustainable family
policies. Russia: folkways versus state-ways. Japan: policy
responses to a declining population. Australia: reform,
revolutions, and lingering effects. Canada: a patchwork policy.
Colombia: a focus on policies for vulnerable families. Researchers
, professors and graduate students in the fields of social policy,
child and family studies, psychology, sociology, and social work
will find in Family Policies Across the Globe a reference that will
grow in importance as world events continue to develop.
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